App Kid

<b>From the creator of the SocialAI app comes an inspiring and deeply personal coming of age memoir from one of Silicon Valley's youngest entrepreneurs. Michael Sayman is a second-generation Latino immigrant who taught himself how to code as a thirteen-year-old and went on to claim his share of the American dream.</b> <p/>As his parents watched their restaurant business collapse in the wake of the Great Recession Michael Sayman was googling how to code. Within a year he had launched an iPhone app that was raking in thousands of dollars a month enough to keep his family afloat--and in America. <p/>Entirely self-taught Sayman headed from high school straight into the professional world and by the time he was seventeen he was Facebook's youngest employe ever building new features that wowed its founder Mark Zuckerberg and are now being used by more than half a billion people every day. Sayman pushed Facebook to build its own version of Snapchat's Stories and as a result engagement on the platform soared across all demographics. Millions of Gen Z and Millennials flocked to Facebook and as teen engagement rose dramatically on Instagram and WhatsApp Snapchat's parent company suffered a billion-dollar loss in value. Three years later Sayman jumped ship for Google. <p/><i>App Kid </i>is the galvanizing story of a young Latino not yet old enough to drink who excelled in the cutthroat world of Silicon Valley and went on to become an inspiration to thousands of kids everywhere by following his own surprising extraordinary path. In this candid and uplifting memoir Sayman shares the highs and lows the successes and failures of his remarkable journey. His book is essential and affirming reading for anyone marching to the beat of their own drum.